It made it worse because they opted to use LN, which is arguably one of the shittiest ways you could have handled off-chain, as the one and only scaling solution. Blocks should have been raised years ago, instead unknowing merchants have had to pay hundreds of thousands in fees per transaction or been forced to hodl for 5 months until the mempool cleared to levels where you only had to pay 10,000 to move your money out.

You didn't understand my point then. LN is optional to use. If you don't like it, don't use it.

An optional enhancement can't make something worse. That's like saying Honda made the Civic worse by offering an option that you didn't like. If you choose not to take the option, how did that make your Civic worse? Makes absolutely no sense. But I don't really expect a lot of logic from the people of this subreddit..

LN, which is arguably one of the shittiest ways you could have handled off-chain

Lol. Name a better way to do off-chain txs then. Right now, Lightning is literally the only trustless, non-custodial off-chain solution. All other off-chain solutions require either custodial or federated trust.

It's abundantly clear that you have no knowledge of how Lightning works, or how other off-chain options work.

The point of my comment being, not that it made it shittier because they added a optional transaction layer, it's that they crippled the main layer so you're forced to use the second layer. Everyone in bitcoin has been in agreement that we need to scale the blockchain to accommodate more transactions since pretty much forever.

Then suddenly out of nowhere a few core devs get nearly a hundred million in funding by bank cartels, a mastercard subsidiary and other shady figures such as a (at the time) key figure of the NY federal reserve and anyone who still kept those views were thrown out of core for "having their account hacked" among other things.

LN is the only way BTC plans to scale, and the shittiest one they could have gone with considering the unfixable problems with routing, channel states and other major security issues that in the end force people to trust custodial wallets or waste money running a full node in your own home.

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